It must be Spring.



The clocks have gained an hour, the sun has peeped out and the garden looks cheery with daffodils, hyacinths and primroses.

It must be Spring.

I don't know about you but with the slightly warmer days and more sunlight I always feel the need to spruce the house up a bit.  I have some longer term decorating plans for hubby but in the meantime I have made some fresh, cheery canvases.

I don't know if you can remember the decorating disaster of last year when we painted the hall duck egg blue but it wasn't really duck egg blue?  I had plans to have crafty projects hung on those walls but hadn't really found the right project.  So when i saw these three canvases in Wilkinsons I immediately hit on a plan to decorate them.

I dry brushed Ranger dabber paints in Willow and Pool with a brush over the canvases then when they were dry sprayed Cosmic Shimmers through a sun spray mask at intervals over the top. Next came a couple of Glimmer Mists over the top to tone it all down.  Gesso was smeared with fingers over the edges, stamped with lids from the dabbers and brushed through a number stencil. 

Papers were torn and stuck, overlaid with lace and pre-cut borders.  I then cut corrugated card with my Nestabilities dies, gessoed them and stuck a patterned smaller piece inside.  Random chipboard letters where covered in old dictionary paper and inked.  A few Martha Stewart butterflies with crystal trails fluttered their way over to finish.

I'm really pleased with them and think they brighten up the hall a treat.